"Phew!"

Outside the room, according to Dr. Asasa's instructions, Toru Amuro and Mizuno Reina, who had chased all the way to here following the signal of the detective badge, stood on either side of the door.

The two men were armed with pistols, and after glancing at each other, Amuro Toru broke the door lock with a single shot, and then stepped forward and slammed it hard, and the two quickly rushed into the room.

"Hands up! Don't think about it...... Well? ”

Before they could finish their words, the two of them looked at each other, and the room was empty, without the Kiyoko Igarashi they had speculated before, and there were no more than a dozen dangerous people in full gear and ready to fight.

[Could it be a trick? 】

Just as this idea came to the minds of the two of them, Conan, who was tied up and sat in the corner of the room, opened his mouth and shouted:

"Mr. Amuro, I'm here."

“……”

"Whew...... Whew......"

And on the other side of Edo Street, somewhere near the clock tower, Shuichi Akai, covered in wounds, covered his shoulders, walked slowly along the path behind the house.

In the previous rocket launcher of Meijiu, although he tried his best to avoid the center of the explosion at the last moment, he was still affected by the impact of the explosion, not only suffered a lot of injuries on his body, but also fainted briefly for a few minutes.

And after waking up, Shuichi Akai did not hesitate at all, dragging this seriously injured body and quickly leaving the clock tower.

His instinct told him that there was a very high probability that the person he was sniping with would immediately come over to confirm his life and death, and if he continued to stay there and be blocked in that clock tower by the other party, he would really be in danger in his current state.

So no matter what, he had to get out of here first.

As for his mother......

The explosion on the clock tower was too obvious for Mary to have noticed, and with his mother's personality she might not have come in person, but Carly and the rest of the operatives should be moving closer by now.

Maybe you can use this to ambush the person who sniped with him......

Thinking of this, Akai Shuichi shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly.

Unfortunately, his communication equipment and mobile phone had been broken in the explosion just now, and there was no way to contact Carly and them now.

Wait for the right moment......

"Boom!"

At this moment, a violent explosion suddenly came from behind Akai Shuichi, and he looked back to find that the clock tower not far behind him was slowly falling towards the other side of the street with a loud bang.

"Boom!"

There was another loud bang, but this time it wasn't an explosion, it was a loud crash as the clock tower toppled down and landed on the surrounding streets and houses.

The earth shook like an earthquake, and the dozens of meters high clock tower was thrown into the sky of dust after it fell.

[I see, did you just blow up that clock tower?] 】

Steady with his back against the wall, Shuichi Akai watched the scene of the clock tower falling to the ground from a distance, and quickly figured out the process.

It is estimated that after arriving here with the person who sniped him, he wanted to confirm his life and death, but he was also worried that he would be ambushed, and did not want to venture into the clock tower to check.

So he came up with this simple and crude method, which directly detonated the bottom layer of the clock tower, forcing the clock tower to tilt and collapse.

In this way, no matter whether he is dead or alive, as long as he remains in that tower, it is definitely a dead end.

That's really ...... is worthy of being a member of the black-clad organization, and his methods of doing things are always so violent.

Fortunately, Akai Shuichi didn't think about squatting in the tower to ambush and counterattack before, otherwise he would have become a piece of "meatloaf" in the ruins now.

He complained silently in his heart, and just as Shuichi Akai turned around to leave, he suddenly stopped again and looked back sharply in the direction of the clock tower.

Wait a minute!

He's escaped, yes, but Carly, who is likely to come to his aid, doesn't know that yet!

Now that the clock tower has collapsed, if Carly's side can't contact him, they will definitely find a way to come over and check on the situation, if the sniper of the organization is gone, but if she is still ambushed there......

"Tsk!"

Realizing this, Shuichi Akai hurriedly turned around and hurried in the direction of the clock tower.

“……”

When Carly commanded the rest of the operation team to rush to the vicinity of the clock tower, the building dozens of meters high had already collapsed to the ground, and the brick and stone walls had completely smashed the street buildings in the direction of the collapse into ruins, and the dust that had been stirred up had gradually dissipated.

"The goal is likely not to go far yet, first occupy the nearby commanding heights and move forward carefully." Hiding behind a nearby house, Carly ordered through the communicator.

"Roger! There is no anomaly in the block on the left. ”

Under her orders, various operational squads went into action, dispersed and occupied the commanding heights of the houses in the area near the clock tower.

Soon, Carly's communicator was filled with reports from the various teams.

"There is no anomaly in the north block."

"Right side block...... Multiply...... There are no anomalies. ”

[Huh? 】

Suddenly there was a shrill electric sound in the communicator, and the strange noise came and went just as quickly, and disappeared before Carly could react.

"There are no anomalies in the south side of the block."

In the communicator, the reports of the other operation teams were heard again, and the voices were normal, and there was no sign of interference.

[Is it a problem with the communication equipment?] 】

Although she was a little confused about the noise, Carly didn't have time to think about it, her immediate priority was to confirm the situation inside the clock tower.

Although she didn't think that Shuichi Akai would die inside like this, Shuichi Akai had not been able to contact her since the previous explosion, and she was really uneasy if she didn't confirm it with her own eyes......

Therefore, even if she knew that there was a high probability that Meijiu was still ambushing in the vicinity, she had to risk the danger and command those people to come and confirm the situation.

It's not a big problem, just be cautious......

What's more, she herself was actually some distance away from the clock tower, and she wasn't too close to that side.

"Team 1, approach the clock tower to confirm the ruins." Throwing the distractions out of her mind, Carly ordered again.

"Roger."

With her orders given, an action team in the neighborhood near the clock tower began to approach the ruins under the cover of the surrounding streets.

At the same moment, not far from Carly and these operatives, Meijiu, who was hiding in a house, looked at several signal sources reflected on the special computer in front of him, and suddenly laughed.

"Ahaha, I've found you."

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(End of chapter)